What podcasts have the best sound design and music right now? Gotta be original music, no production stuff from a website. What’s must-hear these days?
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In terms of pure atmosphere I am betwitched by the Silt Verses. Not so much music, but the environmental sounds are amazing. (BTW, I LOVED the piece with the fox, amazing sense of place -would LOVE a stroll through the citadel or other spaces, overhearing people ordering sandwiches on candle street)
Also to add , the world building in The Silt Verses is amazing. In an urbanised modern world, with industrialised worship of many gods, some legal, many outlawed, disciples of a forbidden river god seek out signs of miracles, where gods grant blessings in the form of grotesque body transfigurations.
The Downside.
They are simple but the ritual of the opening theme landing after a punchline, the thishasgottostop, and the you gotta count your blessings, it all helps me survive another day.
I'm blatantly disregarding one of the qualifiers here, but King Falls AM had some of the coolest sound design and music I've ever heard from a podcast, period. The radio/phone effects, the alien eldritch music, eerie forest sounds, all top tier.
I'm horribly behind but I enjoy the music in Rolling with Difficulty. Less immersive than WBN but good background music to set a mood and keep looping without getting old.
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This is one of my faves
https://soundcloud.com/finishitpod/jenny-mudge?in=finishitpod%2Fsets%2Ffinish-it-the-songs-of-who
They are simple but the ritual of the opening theme landing after a punchline, the thishasgottostop, and the you gotta count your blessings, it all helps me survive another day.